Category : Religion

Amanda Berry Smith was a Methodist holiness evangelist, missionary to Africa and founder of an orphanage for African American children.  Amanda was born into slavery...

The first black Baptist congregation in South Carolina was formed in 1773 on the Galphin Plantation near Silver Bluff, 14 miles northwest of  Savannah, Georgia. ...

First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill lays claim to the designation as the oldest continuously operating African American church in Tennessee because it traces its origin...

Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate founded a Pentecostal denomination and became one of the first American women to hold the title, Bishop. Born in Vanleer, Tennessee...

Minister, civil rights activist, vocalist, Jesse Lee Douglas, Sr. was born August 19, 1930, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to William and Isabella Douglas, a Merchant...

Vodou, also spelled Voodoo, Voudou, Vodun, or French Vaudou, a religion practiced in Haiti. Vodou is a creolized religion forged by descendants of Dahomean, Kongo,...

Spruce Street Baptist Church is one of the oldest black churches in Nashville, Tennessee. It is also one of three churches to evolve out of...

Marie Laveau, also spelled Laveaux, (born 1801?, New Orleans, Louisiana now in the U.S.—died June 15, 1881, New Orleans), Vodou queen of New Orleans. Laveau’s...

Lacey Kirk Williams was the President of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., from 1922 to 1940 and Vice President of the World Baptist Alliance...